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Monday, 20 March 2017

DIY Shadow Box Tutorial by Guest DT Anila

Hello lovely crafters,

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope you all are doing well.

Gifts,
who doesn't love gift, but selecting gifts is very tough. But now no
more tough because today in our Teaching and Learning Program our Guest
DT Anila has brought an awesome tutorial of handmade shadow box. After
seeing this tutorial I bet you will all try. Grab your coffee and sit
back, enjoy the tutorial.

Over to you Anila,

Hello Crafters,

This
is my first GDT with Rainbow Craftykari. I thank Maninder and RC team
for giving me this opportunity. It is indeed a great pleasure to be a
part of this talented team.

We
all know finding gifts for any occasion is a big task, especially if
the gifts are for kids and with our own kids around we struggle for
their birthday return gifts. Today in this Teaching and Learning program
I am going to show some simple ways of making Shadow boxes which make
as excellent piece for home décor or for return gifts. These can be
modified and decorated in various themes and sizes.

Let’s Begin!!

Take a cardstock of size – 12” x 8”.

(Note
– 12”x8” size of cardstock makes a shadow box of size 8”x4”, you can
modify the size as per your requirement keeping in mind the 2” scored
lines that fold in from all four sides)

On the 12” side of the cardstock score the paper at ½”, 1”, 1 ½” & 2”.

Next score the paper at 10”, 10 ½”, 11”, 11 ½”.

Turn
around the paper. Now on the 8” side of the paper score the paper again
at ½”, 1”, 1 ½” & 2”. Next score the paper at 6”, 6 ½”, 7” & 7
½. Your paper will look like this.

Now
cut along the lines and cut-off the overlapped portion as shown /
marked in the picture below. Cut all the squares except the two unmarked
squares.

Separate the two squares. (Check picture below)

Repeat this step for all the 4 sides. The cardstock will look like this now.

Fold
the paper (longer side) on all the score lines as shown. Fold in and
stick the first strip on the base, to form the box wall. Do it on both
the sides.

Fold
in and stick the squares over each other as shown in the picture. Trim
the smaller sides as shown in the image. The first two score lines are
trimmed in line with the wall and the third strip is cut in slant so
that when it folds in, it over laps the longer side wall.

Now
fold in the scored lines of the smaller sides and stick it on the base
to form the smaller wall. While doing so apply little glue on the
squares (shown in the picture), this will give it additional support.

Once all the sides are folded in the base of the shadow box is complete.

Now
take two pieces of the same cardstock, around 1 ½” x 1 ½”, punch a
hole on them and stick them from the backside of the box. Apply
generous amount of adhesive here as this part is going to bear the
entire load of your shadow box. Tie a matching satin ribbon through the
holes to use it for hanging.

Now comes the decoration part. Stick a patterned paper on the inside of the box and decorate it as per the theme.

Here I have made a few shadow boxes with different themes.

Shadow box 1

This
is in a “Baby girl” theme. It is decorated using some Baby stickers
like baby clothes, booties, socks, an elephant. The name of this baby is
mounted on white coloured die-cut circles. Washi tapes are on the
borders.

Shadow box 2

The next one is for a home décor. Here I have used flower, leaves and chipboard decorations.

Shadow box 3

It can also be made to display inspirational quotations / sayings. This is a smaller sized shadow box.

Shadow box 4

Here
it is made as an intial art with floral arrangement. This is a little
different shadow box it is covered with a plastic sheet. (When you make
a closed box you can even have 3D/ standalone decorations)

Shadow box 5

A
Jungle safari Shadow box. For this shadow box I have used a double
sided patterned paper with animal print. Embellished it with die-cut
flowers, animals and birds stickers, butterflies, some smiley buttons.

Shadow box 6

This
is an Aquarium Shadow box. It has been decorated with some fine stones,
shells, fish stickers etc. There are endless possibilities.

It was real fun making them all. Did you like them? Which one is your favorite

I am listing the materials used for them below

Materials used:

Plain cardstock

Satin ribbon

Patterned paper

Washi tapes

Sticker embellishments

Alphabet stickers

Flowers

Chipboards

Doily

MDF alphabet

Acetate

Animal / bird stickers

Fine stones / sand

Shells, stars etc.

Fish stickers

All
the above mentioned materials are available at Rainbow Craftykari store
or you can pre-order them by sending an email
@rainbowcraftykari@live.com

I hope you liked and enjoyed my tutorial and that I have inspired you enough to try it out soon.

WELCOME

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